DOOMED TO SUCCEED

Tananarive and I drove out to Santa Barbara to shop at one of our favorite stores, NAMASTE, a Nepalese import store. Beautiful clothing and fabric items. We love taking long drives together, and tried to take some such excursion every weekend. IN the past, this was a chance to get out of the house, away from curious ears, and discuss short and long term plans for our family. Every week.

This time, our intention was to talk through the complete “From ADHA to A’s” program. It is now on the calendar — because JASON asked when we’re doing it. I had to wait for that. HE HAS TO WANT IT, for his own reasons.

Anyway, Tananarive talked through her personal perspective on everything that happened from the time he was 18 months old. It took about an hour, with lots of specific points of focus. Then I talked through my perspective, including a list of the most important tools I used. But what became clear is that the single most important thing was the DAILY RITUAL that I implemented back in Atlanta, which evolved to incorporate Eugene Swartz’s book “Double Your Child’s Grades.”

I realized that in some part of my mind, I took my OWN morning ritual (Firedance, a mixture of Tai Chi, Contemporary Shamanism, NLP, Success psychology, Think and Grow Rich “mentor” work, Robbins-Madones training, and more).

Then two years ago, Sifu Carl Totten taught me the “Blessing Dance” Sufi ritual, and we incorporated that. So my ritual

1. begins with pure meditation (me within me).